As part of the UK Being Human festival of the humanities, Liverpool John Moores University Library Services are hosting a fun event in Liverpool Central Library from 11.00am to 3.00pm on Saturday 21st November. LJMU students are running a number… Read More ›
Next week, on Tuesday 24th November, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival will be hitting London with their first ever auction of original comic art. It’s going to be a glittering affair, with celebrity auctioneers Jonathan Ross and Tim Farron MP, ridiculously delicious nosh… Read More ›
The culmination of the Thought Bubble Comics Arts Festival in Leeds was this last weekend and, as with previous years, it was a busy bustle of comics in all forms. I was there from the Friday night party to the… Read More ›
The star-studded guest list for this year’s Malta Comic Con has been accelerating so fast over the last couple of weeks we’re only now catching up with recent announcements. Although there’s some disappointing news that artist Jon Haward has had… Read More ›
It’s the Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds this weekend, Earthlets – and what a feast for any 2000AD fan, with the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic occupying tables #37-#38 in the Thought Bubble Marquee with the latest graphic novel releases, creator signings, exclusive… Read More ›
Following up on reports that the Free Comic Book Day Retailer Committee has rejected some publishers – including 2000AD – from offering their comics as part of the annual Free Comic Book Day promotion, the US-based semi-satirical comic book website TheOuthousers.com has announced plans to hold its own free… Read More ›
Just opened at London’s Somerset House is TINTIN: Herge’s Masterpiece, a new, free exhibition has just opened is well worth a visit that runs until January 2016. Stepping inside the wonderfully eccentric world of artist-author Hergé and Tintin, his intrepid young… Read More ›
As part of the South Ken Kids Festival the acclaimed French illustrator and cartoonist Barroux will orchestrate a special live drawing event around his graphic novel Alpha: Abidjan-Gare du Nord on 21st November 2015, about a man from the Ivory Coast… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has published the results of its Visitor Survey and Event Evaluation for this year’s October 2015 – and it makes for positive reading for the event, the town and its team of dedicated volunteers. Now in its third… Read More ›
The George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art – first announced last year – has been given the green light by Chicago’s City Council, which has approved revised plans for its design. Construction will begin next year on the Museum, which… Read More ›
Various members of the Edinburgh League Of Comics will be attending and selling their work at Thought Bubble in Leeds on the weekend of 14/15 November 2015 where they will all have tables in the New Dock Hall. The group was… Read More ›
Darryl Cunningham, author of the brilliant Psychiatric Tales and Supercrash, is featured on the Rethink Mental Illness blog, talking frankly and positively about how creating comics helped him through difficult times. Rethink Mental Illness aims to help millions of people… Read More ›
With less than two weeks away from the start of this year’s Thought Bubble Festival, the organisers have just announced a signing tour taking place as part of 2015’s Festival, bringing some Thought Bubble guests to a comic shop near you during the Festival week,… Read More ›
Art from the Walking Dead comic by Charlie Adlard, superhero drawings by Darwyn Cooke and Stuart Immonen and cartoons by Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell and VIZ artist Graham Dury have been added to the catalogue for Lakes International Comic Art Festival Grand Auction of Original Comic Art, which will take place live and online from London’s Orbital… Read More ›
As the excitement leading to the seventh edition of the Malta Comic Con in December continues to build Wicked Comics have announced that internationally renowned creators Guillermo Ortego (Avengers), Sean Azzopardi (Necessary Monsters), and Simon “Pye” Parr (Judge Dredd Megazine) as well… Read More ›
As we mentioned last week, Thought Bubble, the UK’s largest annual comic art festival which is now in its ninth year, takes place in Leeds from 9 – 15 November 2015. Supported by Leeds Dock, Leeds Inspired and Travelling Man… Read More ›
OK, ladies and gentlemen the time has come. Start your engines. And you! Yes, you, Chris Sides from Redshift Press! You will never silence me! Now fully part of the UK Comic Convention scene, Nottingham Comic Con is in its third… Read More ›
Carlisle’s EdenCon returns for its second year on 23rd April 2016, raising money for cash4kids. Guests have yet to be announced (last year they included myself, Gary Erskine, Mal Earl and a very rare convention appearance by Steve and Annie Parkhouse) and but… Read More ›
The remarkably warm and dry weekend of 16-18 October 2015 saw the third Lakes International Comic Art Festival take place in the Lake District town of Kendal. LICAF, or more simply Lakes, has grown in stature and visitor numbers over the… Read More ›
As a newbie to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) Norman Boyd wondered how he was supposed to tackle a big event like this. Some of you will think “what’s he on about?” but experience tells me Norman’s not the… Read More ›